Word: culdesac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...start a whole new realistic trend in staging the Ring. After the innovative Wieland Wagner began presenting his grandfather's works as absorbing formal abstractions at Bayreuth in the early 1950s, the imitators began falling into line. Says London: "Soon everyone was in a culdesac, with no place to go. That is when the gimmicks started popping up. In one Ring in Germany, for example, the Valkyries came in on motorcycles. In France, Wotan wore a top hat and tails. Enough. It's poisonous. We have to go back to the source...
...suddenly began broadening and upgrading its lines of clothing, furnishings and appliances in an apparent effort to try to compete with J.C. Penney and Sears. To make these costlier goods easy to buy, the company peddled a variety of credit-card plans that eventually led it into a financial culdesac. To buy inventory, Grants borrowed heavily at high rates, and then had to wait for customers to pay their bills...
Returning as President this year, however, Ford had to move out of his own place for security reasons. He took a private seven-room Alpine chalet on a culdesac. Going to a strange house, deprived of her own things, Betty Ford remarked a bit wistfully that it was the first time in five years that she had had to remember to pack the Band-Aids...
...American saw about the old American dream of overnight wealth. Cops and Robbers is about a pair of the former (attractively played by Joseph Bologna and Cliff Gorman) who turn into the latter in order to lift themselves out of their installment-plan lives as neighbors in a Queens culdesac. Although they fail to score on their prime target, a vaultful of bearer bonds in a Wall Street brokerage house, they finally lay a solid hit on a secondary target of opportunity-the Mafia-and walk off chortling...
...such determined scramblings down the tree of life, E.M. Cioran, 59, has made himself into a kind of one-man cult of the culdesac: the king of the pessimists in a bumper year for pessimists. Cioran's recent book of essays-"fragments" he likes to call them-threatens with success a man whose first principle is to hold success in contempt. See the chapter on "Fame: Hopes and Horrors...